Data Curator - Childhood Cancer Data Initiative

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Science and Research

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Collaborating, Data Generation, Research Data, Research Process, Unix

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Curator to join our team and support the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI). The primary goal is to develop a Childhood Cancer Data Ecosystem (CCDE) that maximizes the access, use, and interoperability of childhood cancer data. The successful implementation of the CCDE will enhance the pediatric cancer community’s efforts in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment outcomes for childhood cancer patients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Curate and quality check (QC) data submissions to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Facilitate the process of CCDI data submissions through various stages to ensure proper deposition in repositories such as the NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Commons and NIH’s dbGaP.
• Conduct QC checks of CCDI data against defined data models and permissible values.
• Verify submissions against original data manifests to ensure accuracy.
• Communicate and collaborate with data submitters and ensure submissions accurately represent the original data.
• Map cancer molecular and clinical data to appropriate data fields using defined permissible values.
• Report on the progress and status of data curation tasks.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, or a related field
• Five years experience working with Biological and Biomedical computer data.
• Strong understanding of molecular and clinical data and its implications for research.
• Proven experience in data curation and quality control processes.
• Experience working with data repositories and submission processes.
• Proficiency in data mapping and transformation.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with data submitters and stakeholders.
• Attention to detail and strong analytical skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Data Science, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, or a related field.
• Experience with cancer data.
• Knowledge of data harmonization and compliance standards.
• Familiarity with Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) and dbGaP registration processes.
• Proficiency in using data curation tools and software.
• Experience in scripting for manipulating data (ETL) e.g. Bash, Python, R .

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The likely salary range for this position is $127,500 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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